Quotes About History

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

Early Four Horseman is absolutely terrific.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by other historians. I called my book 'The Social Origins of Private Life.' It should have been 'As Pompous as You Want to Be.' Every sentence was academic jargon, and if I said X, I qualified it with Y.

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.

Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature - for yes, to me, such a thing exists, and history indeed proves it.

It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was a terrifying time.

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

The architect works in the territory of memory.

Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

Biography lends to death a new terror.